Hey y'all, I'm in the market for a new mic set-up for on stage performance and I thought it would be infotaining to hear which mics you guys (uilleann pipers) prefer and where you place them. I've been using shure 58s and 57s for years but I'm starting to think about switching to condensers like AKG C 1000s etc.

Any thoughts?

-Cheers!

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For stage use, the primary concern is the pattern. The louder the stage volume, the more narrow it needs to be. Well, that, and the form-factor -- mounted on the instrument or on a stand.

For an instrument, a flatter response will give the sound man a more true-to-life signal. But what comes out the PA speakers will be more a function of the sound man and the PA system than the microphone. In other words, it doesn't matter a whole lot what the microphone is. I'm saying this from the perspective of having been the sound man.